Fall, 2025 Athena’s Quill

Glass-coated clay, molded and formed to life with still eyes. Some would say that alive was the wrong word for the clay-skeletoned being. Some would [...]

Hi, I’m Teddy. I’m a 3×3 Rubik’s Cube. Y’know, sometimes other, cooler Rubik’s Cubes (like the 4×4, 17×17, and even the 3×3 MIRROR cube) ask [...]

The clock read 7:21. She was so incredibly tired, but there wasn’t time for that. She pulled her head off the desk. Her nose was [...]

Mara blinked up at the house. It was unlike anything she had come across in her travels among the Moon and Martian colonies. The colonies [...]

Art by Xan Note from Prof. Suki: Xan has been sharing her wonderful art for so many years, and she is now set to graduate. [...]

Context Across the River is a story about a friendly person named Vera who wishes to make sure that their friend Vanya does not suffer [...]

Prologue I’m sure you all know who I am. Or you think you do, anyway.  You think I’m Hamlet’s tragic girlfriend, who drowned herself in [...]

A row of color-coded coffin-like boxes, waiting for roll call, will never be touched until the treaty of the other actions are done. So, as [...]

For my whole life I have lived in Chicago, Illinois. I had led a happy life with friends and my sports team.  I felt my [...]

In the darkest part of the forest, inside a crooked castle where bats squeaked like broken violins, lived a vampire named Dracula. He was 215 [...]

This is satire. I do not agree with any of the opinions or views I voice in the essay Birds Are Cool and Interesting. Have [...]

Chapter 1: Pilot December twelfth wasn’t supposed to be weird. Not weirder than usual, anyway. Jackson Miller trudged out of bed with sleep still clinging [...]

If you listen, really listen, silence means about the same thing as noise. Head to a bus stop, please, and I’ll explain what I mean. [...]

Chapter 1: The Beginning It was the last day of school and Margaret could not have been more excited. She was ready for a thrilling [...]

Summer WriteWeek 2025 Group Poem Alternative title: 5 people create 5 lines while one guy just talks about sandwiches * I wish I could become [...]

Chapter 1 Larry It was the first day at my new school.  Little did I know that it would end up much different than any [...]

Marcello was annoyed, I could tell from the metronome tempo of his foot. 1, 2, 3, 4, and again, 1, 2, 3, 4. We were [...]

Chapter 19 I saw it again that night, just as clearly as before.The bridge, every detail sharp.Her foot on a weakened slat.Step.Wobble.Crack.Livia, tumbling into the [...]

Tungsten paced back and forth, back and forth. Her mother had always told her it was an ugly habit, one more befitting of a shrew [...]

Jack and his sister Jill were orphans who lived together in the countryside on the side of a rough, gravely road. Every day, they went [...]

Chapter One Far away from the riverbank stands a cathedral with shiny round domes. It is white, the details are gold, and the domes and [...]

I hurried up the stairs of the palace to The Pinnacle, Queen Ariadne’s chambers. I was but a  messenger delivering, well, a message to her. [...]

Rodnie was moving out of his house and so he held an open house for the possible buyers. Only one humanoid came. (Yes this world [...]